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Fairness Rocks exists because musicians, composers, actors, screenwriters, film directors and their fellow artists all over the world have one thing in common – the belief in fair reward for creative contribution.

For too long, rights-owning conglomerates have failed to ensure the creative artists behind the works receive their rightful share of the rewards. The media companies have also failed to get to grips with the world of downloading and online distribution and, as a result, incomes of creators have been decimated. Movies or albums rarely recoup their costs, no matter how great a box office hit or how large the sales from records or streaming. Surely, the mathematics should be transparent.

So, just occasionally, individuals with both resources and guts take a large media company to court to highlight the mistreatment commonly experienced by creators and artists, and the lack of transparent accounting - as we, the creators of Spinal Tap - are now doing.

If you’re a creative in a similar boat – we hope this site will help you in your quest for fair reward.

Vested interests will play hardball. It’ll be uncomfortable for some.

But fairness is worth fighting for.

We all just got louder.

HarryShearer

RobReiner

MichealMcKean

ChristopherGuest

What's on Fairness Rocks?

Fairness Rocks is a site designed to inform the talent who seek to ensure they are receiving fair reward for their artistic endeavour. There is an imbalance in the financial reward received by media companies and the talent. This problem appears widespread.

Vivendi, Studio Canal and Universal did not single out the Spinal Tap creators to treat them badly. The unfair treatment the four have received is meted out to the talent everywhere, every single day.

We hope the site will be useful to the talent, informative for journalists and insightful for others in the media industry who are willing to learn about what really goes on in the world of culture and entertainment.

The operators of Fairness Rocks accept no responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or otherwise, of the material featured. The information is intended only as a general guide to the film and music industries. Nothing on this site should be relied upon as legal advice. A specialist copyright legal adviser should be consulted where a reader has a particular legal or commercial issue in relation to matters referenced.

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Moral Rights

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Licensing & Terminating Rights

Consent is required when a third party wants to use either a copyright work or a performance. Consent takes the form of a licence. Copyrighted work can be carved up in a multitude of ways providing numerous, but specific, licences of a single work or performance at any one time.

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What digital did

Online streaming to mass audiences seemed like a great way of creating popular demand. Until creators realised that digital service providers were failing to pay reasonable rates for content. What's more, the talent has to rely on the streaming industry to provide acurate data to match downloads to artists/performers. The reality is digital has decimated the livelihoods of thousands of artists/performers.

Media Stories

@AIM_UK Guidance on PledgeMusic Situation

As has been reported widely in the music news, PledgeMusic hasn’t been able to make payments for some time now and is now reportedly in the process of going into administration or will be wound up as insolvent. Read more: https://artistrightswatch.com/2019/05/24/aim-guidance-on-pledgemusic-situation/

Talent Talks

‘This Is Spinal Tap’ cast reflects on the cult classic 35 years later

Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner of “This Is Spinal Tap” sit down with NBC’s Harry Smith 35 years after the film’s debut to talk about how the groundbreaking mockumentary became a cult classic. Watch the video: https://www.today.com/video/-this-is-spinal-tap-cast-reflects-on-the-cult-classic-35-years-later-1515441731721

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This site seeks to encourage creative artistic talent to obtain fairness and justice in the exploitation of the works they create.

The operators of Fairness Rocks accept no responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or otherwise, of the material featured. The information is intended only as a general guide to the film and music industries. Nothing on this site should be relied upon as legal advice. A specialist copyright legal adviser should be consulted where a reader has a particular legal or commercial issue in relation to matters referenced.